Helping faculty members join Newsela

Michelle Pittman
November 01, 2017 13:28

A school's Newsela account is created by a school administrator (District Leader, Principal, or Teacher Captain). Faculty members must join your school's Newsela account to take advantage of all Newsela features. They have two options for registration:

Create an account by searching for your school. NOTE: They must register with a valid school email address to join the school's Newsela account.

Be invited using the Invitefaculty link.

Viewing registered faculty members

As a Principal or Teacher Captain, you can see the names of every faculty member who has registered for Newsela and how many students have joined their classes. To view which faculty have already registered for Newsela:

Hover over your name on the Search and Navigation bar and choose FACULTY.

A list of all faculty members associated with your school will display.NOTE: Enter a faculty member's name in the Search faculty field to search for a specific faculty member.

Inviting faculty members to join Newsela

Hover over your name on the Search and Navigation bar and choose FACULTY.

Copy the link under Invite faculty.

Create an email to each faculty member you wish to invite. In the body of the email:

Paste the Invite faculty link.

Instruct faculty members to click the link and follow the prompts to register for Newsela. NOTE: When a faculty member clicks the link, Newsela will automatically associate the new account with your school.